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Sometimes when you can't find a bug, it's because you're looking in the wrong place. What makes you so sure your bug isn't in the bits of code you haven't shown us? Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/ > -----Original Message----- > From: Frans Englich [mailto:frans.englich@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: 13 September 2004 13:59 > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: apply-template doesn't hit template > > > Hello all, > > I have an embarrassing simple apply-templates/template > problem. Here's my > source document: > > <kcmtests> > > <kcm kcfg="true" [...]> > [...] > </kcm> > > <kcm kcfg="false" [...]> > [...] > </kcm> > > <kcm kcfg="false" [...]> > [...] > </kcm> > > </kcmtests> > > There's 21 kcm elements, all of them have "kcfg='true'". > > <xsl:template select="kcm"> > <xsl:message>template hits</xsl:message> > <!-- This message is never seen --> > </xsl:template> > > <xsl:template match="/"> > <xsl:apply-templates select="//kcm[@kcfg='true']"/> > <xsl:message> > <xsl:value-of select="count(//kcm[@kcfg='true'])"/> > <!-- This reports 0, which is correct --> > </xsl:message> > > <xsl:apply-templates select="//kcm[@kcfg='false']"/> > <xsl:message> > <xsl:value-of select="count(//kcm[@kcfg='false'])"/> > <!-- This reports 21, which is correct --> > </xsl:message> > </xsl:template> > > > What I want to achieve is to in one place select entries(the > root template), > and then with the first template format them for > representation -- but it > doesn't hit. Instead, the selected items(the 21 kcm) is > printed right out in > the output(their content, no elements). > > I have two questions: > > 1. Why doesn't the template hit? > > 2. Why are the content simply sent to the output? Is it > because I selected > them, but no template matched? > > The above XSL is that simple, I've commented out everything > else for testing > purposes. > > > Thanks in advance, > > Frans
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